ByMatthew W. Chwastyk This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Florida’s famed wetlands, the Everglades, are pinched between a burgeoning Miami to the east ...

A Florida governor in the early 1900s saw potential for the Everglades land but only if it was drained of its water.

This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... There are no other Everglades in the world,” wrote Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the Florida conservationist ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... half of the Big Cypress Swamp and the neighboring Everglades was destroyed for cities and farms.

Since it lacked the distinguishing features of dramatic landscapes, many doubted whether the Everglades was even worthy of being a national park. "A swamp is a swamp," scoffed respected zoologist ...

The National Geographic x Lacoste collaboration is one ... preservation and in the restoration of the ecosystems of the Everglades, in the far south of the state of Florida made up of coastal ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Washington’s Mount Rainier boasts the largest collection of glaciers on a single peak in the contiguous United States.

Just outside the city lies some of the richest ecosystems in the southeastern United States, and you can hop from alligator-watching in the Everglades to people-watching on South Beach’s Ocean ...

Everglades National Park is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States. It preserves the southernmost 20% of the Everglades. It was the first park to preserve an ecosystem.